Shiromani Akali Dal leader, Sikh Separatist Simranjit Singh Mann recently instigated a controversy after attacking politician Kangana Ranaut with a derogatory remark after she said that rapes took place during farmers’ protest.
‘I don’t want to say this but Kangana Ranaut has a lot of experience with rape and you can ask her how rape happens so that it can be explained to people. The same way people learn riding a bicycle, they have the experience of riding a bicycle. She has a similar experience of rape’, said Simranjit Singh Mann.
“It seems this country will never stop trivialising rape, today this senior politician compared getting raped to riding a bicycle no wonder rapes and violence against women for fun are so deeply rooted in the psyche of this patriarchal nation that it is casually used to tease or mock a woman even if she is a high profile filmmaker or politician,” Kangana Ranaut posted on X (formerly Twitter).
The BJP leader added, “I am getting rape threats also that Kangana knows how rape happens. It is like a rape threat but he cannot suppress my voice like this.” During one of the promotion events Kangana Ranaut lauded the Union government for its actions during the farmer protest. “What happened in Bangladesh, it could have easily happened here too. Bodies were seen hanging and rapes were taking place,” said Kangana while referring to criminal incidents that were widely reported during the first farmers’ protest.
Afterwards, Kangana Ranaut started receiving numerous threats for both her upcoming film Emergency and speaking out against the agitation. Some so-called “influencers” threatened to harm her physically or file a defamation lawsuit, while others implied she would suffer a destiny akin to that of Indira Gandhi.
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